In one poem he described the sonnet as being "of its own arduous fullness reverent" and imagined it as a coin in Charon's palm to "pay the toll to Death." In another sonnet in the same collection, he described the titular time as "This close-companioned inarticulate hour / When twofold silence was t
In one poem he described the sonnet as being "of its own arduous fullness reverent" and imagined it as a coin in Charon's palm to "pay the toll to Death." In another sonnet in the same collection, he described the titular time as "This close-companioned inarticulate hour / When twofold silence was the song of love." In addition to "Silent Noon," he wrote an internal monologue in which the speaker imagines the title character waking with his gold coins in her hair. That poem, in which the speaker contemplates the "lazy laughing languid" title prostitute, is entitled "Jenny." The parenthetical "I saw her smile" and "I heard her tears" begin and end the final stanza of his most famous poem, in which the title character "lean[s] out / From the gold bar of heaven," gazing at her earthbound lover. For 10 points identify this poet and painter who wrote the sonnet sequence The House of Life, as well as "The Blessed Damozel."
In one poem he described the sonnet as being "of its own arduous fullness reverent" and imagined it as a coin in Charon's palm to "pay the toll to Death."
Dante Gabriel {Rossetti}